WE'RE ALL ABOUT CIVILITY

A strong community is vibrant, resilient and thriving. It's a place that marshals its resources in imaginative ways, is open and inclusive, and finds innovative approaches to meet challenges and make new opportunities.

A strong sense of community is what makes a neighborhood, town or city vibrant, resilient and thriving. It's the shared appreciation of why the people in that community love where they live. It's the key ingredient for becoming and remaining a strong community.

CIVILITY

Being courteous and respectful to each other as citizens. It’s listening to understand, thinking things through, seeking clarification, and assuming good intentions. It’s the foundation of a strong, vibrant community. It begins with each of us.

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

Being involved with efforts to improve our community and foster a stronger sense of community. It indicates the emotional connection we have with our community—the connection that prompts us to learn about and discuss issues affecting the city and region where we live, and inspires us to participate in addressing those issues.

CIVIL DISCOURSE

Discussion about community issues that proceeds according to the standards of civility. It avoids finger-pointing, finger-wagging, and fussing. It reflects the willingness to hear and consider—not ignore or dismiss—each other’s perspective even (especially) when we disagree. It’s the effort to find common ground for decisions about our community.

Civility, Civil Discourse, and Community Engagement for the love of Sequim

COMMUNITY PLUS

WE'RE ALL ABOUT CIVILITY

Making New Connections - Bringing People Together

Community Plus cultivates a stronger community and sense of community in Sequim by fostering civility, civil discourse, and greater civic engagement. We believe that through broad, inclusive, conversations based on the principles of civility, we can help generate a shared understanding of who we are as a community and a shared vision of how we can make this place we love even better.

PROJECTS

Community Plus focuses on improving the community through contribution and involvement. Have a look at these important projects and consider joining in. We'd love to have you contribute your unique perspective, skills and passion to make Sequim even better!

What if you could replace a vacant lot with a park, and turn an ugly dark blue wall into a display of art? That’s what Ken started wondering about the space on East Washington Street between Jose’s and the Rusting Rooster, and the exterior wall of Jose’s.

The Sequim Youth Cycling League--"SYCL"--is a project focused on introducing kids in the Sequim area to bicycling as a structured athletic activity, and encouraging them to aspire to--and achieve--important goals and lifelong fitness and health.

“Work in Place” is a term that applies to employees or individuals who aren’t based exclusively in a central office, and include remote working, teleworking or telecommuting, and working in shared workspaces, from home, or other offsite locations.

EVENTS

Through our public “Conversations on Our Community” that cover a variety of topics, to our workshops focused on specific issues, to various collaborative initiatives and projects, we help in the creation of an even more livable, lovable Sequim where all can grow and prosper.

C
ommunity Plus sponsors, supports, or conducts a wide range of efforts that generally fall into one of these categories: arts and music, economic growth and business development, educational quality, or community social issues (such as homelessness, drug addiction, health, poverty).

Our “Conversations on Our Community,” address core themes and ideas about what makes Sequim special, what we share as a community, and the great potential that makes a bright future possible.

Through broader, more inclusive collaboration on workshops and projects, we help marshal resources more effectively, and advance ideas from talk to successful action.

BLOG POSTS

Civil discourse can be lively, engaging, passionate—even widely divergent, strongly held views can be discussed reasonably. We embrace and encourage a positive, optimistic—yet realistic—perspective, and the exploration of issues with an eye to finding solutions, exploring opportunities, seeking creative, innovative approaches.

What does it mean to be a truly “inclusive” community? Is being “inclusive” even possible in a fractious age when we seem all too willing to make sharp, impenetrable distinctions between “us” and “them?” Is […]

United Sequim (US) for Sequim Schools is a group that was formed following the Sequim Community Plus meetings that focused on how best to support and promote our schools. The desire to build more positive […]

What do we mean when we say Sequim is a friendly community? How accepting are we, really, of those from widely different backgrounds, experiences, beliefs or convictions—and how do we know that? How can we […]

On January 19th, CommunityPlus hosted its latest “Conversation on Our Community,” tackling the difficult subject of hatred. Prompted by a recent incident at the high school, the goal of the conversation was to answer the […]

PARTNERS

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Our Projects

What if you could replace a vacant lot with a park, and turn an ugly dark blue wall into a display of art? That’s what Ken started wondering about the space on East Washington Street between Jose’s and the Rusting Rooster, and the exterior wall of Jose’s.

The Sequim Youth Cycling League--"SYCL"--is a project focused on introducing kids in the Sequim area to bicycling as a structured athletic activity, and encouraging them to aspire to--and achieve--important goals and lifelong fitness and health.

“Work in Place” is a term that applies to employees or individuals who aren’t based exclusively in a central office, and include remote working, teleworking or telecommuting, and working in shared workspaces, from home, or other offsite locations.

The Sequim School District has some great faculty and staff. In many cases, however, their accomplishments often get little recognition or appreciation in the broader community, even though the impact of their efforts is extensive and significant.